During the salad days of youth, almost nothing can top a carefree day at the beach. But as the taut allure of youth gives way to the wrinkles and sags of middle age, those trips to the beach may start to feel a little predatory from an outsider’s perspective. For the Beach Boys, those 60s rock icons who built an entire career around an idyllic vision of glistening white bodies lounging on America’s sandy shores, getting older meant jacking up the nostalgia factor, especially when the songwriting went sideways and the hits became fewer and far between.

The rising popularity of silk-screening makes it very likely that you have come across Karina Isabelle's shirts at some point. Setting herself apart from the current industry trends, she creates playful and relatable illustrations aimed at making people smile. "I measure my artworks’ success on the fact that people are excited enough to not only purchase them but to wear them proudly," explains the young artist and business owner. But let's take things back a little, success doesn't happen over night.

Located on the busy Saint-Laurent Boulevard in Montreal, Glass Door Gallery is a DIY multidisciplinary art venue dedicated to support local emerging artists. Often empty with bare, white walls, the space is a popular location for throwing experimental avant-garde art shows.

Shanda Leer is your favourite tipsy aunt at a wedding. Besides making every pizza personal-sized, her three talents are hosting, toasting and ghosting.

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Ever wonder how actual sails stay intact? I mean, they’re just pieces of fabric fastened to a mast by string. And yet they’re just there, getting weathered and enduring. It’s pretty cool. Admirable, even. But what’s even more cool is a monorail system. If you don’t believe, watch that episode of The Simpsons.

A ritual, according to its generic definition, refers to "any practice or pattern of behavior regularly performed in a set manner." And sure, when applied to the arts, one could make a parallel with an artist's creative process. That's exactly what Jeremy Boleyn and Kristofer Dompierre's new exhibition - and first of a series - is all about: exploring rituals as a creative process accompanying the artists until the work's completion.

Perhaps the street-art focused Show And Tell Gallery founded and directed by Simon Cole in Toronto rings a bell. If you haven't checked out Cooper Cole Gallery on Dupont Street since its opening, you should put that on your to-do list. Also founded and directed by Simon Cole, Cooper Cole is, in fact, somewhat of a rebrand of his previous gallery concept.

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Thank you for an awesome interview! It was very good and absolutely needed. I've missed The Radio Dept. I remembering standing a bit up from the scene where they were playing in Arvikafestivalen 2003, I was 18. Every Radio Dept song was like the best sex, most profound political stance and pride. I am from Karlstad, Sweden.